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And the German government considered: “It is shocking that Alexei Navalny has been the victim of an attack with a toxic neurochemical in Russia.”
He said that “the Foreign Ministry will inform the Russian ambassador of the results of the investigation,” and stressed that Germany will also inform “its partners in the European Union and NATO of the results of the investigation,” adding that it “will discuss an appropriate joint response with their partners in light of the Russian statement. “
The president of the Munich Security Conference, Wolfgang Ischinger, warned that German-Russian relations had reached a “new abyss” due to the possible poisoning of the Russian opposition.
Eschinger told “Der Spiegel” magazine on Monday that “Russia’s credibility has undoubtedly been undermined by the poisoning attack on Sergei Skripal in Britain, the murder of a Chechen in exile in Berlin and the attack of piracy against the German parliament “Bundestag”.
Ischinger affirmed that the law of the most powerful is in force in Moscow, explaining that “this is, unfortunately, the end, also for the idea of strategic partnership.”
Russia is likely to face diplomatic sanctions for the poisoning incident, as German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas confirmed on Friday that Germany is ready to impose diplomatic sanctions on Russia if it turns out that the Russian state apparatus was responsible for poisoning the opposition Alexei Navalny, one of the strongest critics of President Vladimir Putin.
Merkel pointed to a similar reaction to the poisoning of former Russian double spy Sergey Skripal in Britain, adding that at that time some 30 Western allies expelled Russian diplomats.
The German government also intends to “communicate with the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons,” which prohibits the use of Novichok-type materials.
For her part, the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, considered that the Russian opposition Alexei Navalny was the victim of “a despicable and cowardly act.”
“It is a despicable and cowardly act, again,” he wrote in a tweet on Twitter, referring to the use of a substance that was developed in the era of the Soviet Union to poison ex-spy Sergey Skripal in 2018 on British soil. He said that “the perpetrators of (this poisoning) must be proven.”
As for Britain, he asked Russia to “tell the truth” and British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said “it is absolutely unacceptable to use this banned chemical weapon again”, referring to the use of a substance that was developed in the era of the Soviet Union to poison ex-spy Sergey Skripal, demanding “The Russian government is telling the truth about what happened to Navalny.”
Navalny had fallen ill on August 20 and is still in a coma at the Charité Hospital in Berlin, despite his best condition.
Novichok or “newcomer” is a highly toxic nerve agent that was developed in the Soviet Union in the 1970s and 1980s.
Moscow is believed not to disclose Novichok to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which oversees a treaty banning its use.
